If you want to live longer, flexibility exercises might be a step in the right direction.
Brazilian researchers calculated a joint mobility score — called a “Flexindex” — for about 3,100 healthy middle-aged adults who performed a series of 20 movements.
Men and women with low scores had a higher risk of dying — up to five times more, in some cases — than their flexible counterparts, the study found.
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